Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEATHER BOYS. Rita Tushingham, as a teen-aged trollop who nearly loses her restless young husband to his motorcycling mate, in a freewheeling portrait of British youth...
Fascinated in a somewhat different fashion, Hearst's Jim Bishop drew a less flattering portrait: "The lady is 60 inches of wrought iron. It is blonde and pale and unyielding. It isn't something that God wrought. Candace did it. From the day long ago, when the little Georgia belle found out females have an earthy attraction for males, Candace has coated that little body with so many veneers of honey and passion that if the real Candace stood up, Mrs. Mossier would probably disown...
...Redgrave and Ingrid Bergman in Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Also an updated satirical revue, Beyond the Fringe. Not to forget Sir Laurence Olivier in Congreve's Love for Love, as well as Alec McCowan and Siobhan McKenna in The Cavern and Dorothy Tutin in Portrait of a Queen...
...great mentor Degas perhaps caught her contrary character best in his 1884 portrait. Wistful, Cassatt sits in slight supplication, knees and wrists together, her eyes deflected in reverie, her hands holding playing cards like a fan. She was appalled that he depicted her with gambler's tools, but for all her chamber-music modesty, she was not without a sense of humor. She loved recounting Degas' remark as he admired one of her many mother-and-child scenes, "It has all your qualities and all your faults," he had said, unable to resist an acid aside...
Harlem made him an honorary citizen for his early defense of African primitive sculpture. Modigliani drew his portrait and inscribed it to "The New Pilot" of modern art. He discovered Soutine and, the story has it, once sold a hundred of his paintings in a single batch to the U.S. collector Albert Barnes. But as one of Paris's most successful art dealers, the late Paul Guillaume had one flaw: he would not part with what he loved best. For this the Louvre Museum expressed its heartfelt thanks last week, as it installed 145 paintings from the collection...